Azure.Source – Volume 69
Analytics in Azure is up to 14x faster and costs 94% less than other cloud providers; Announcing updates to 3 great Azure Data services; Azure Cost Management now GA for EA customers; and more.
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Analytics in Azure is up to 14x faster and costs 94% less than other cloud providers. Why go anywhere else?
It’s true. With the volume and complexity of data rapidly increasing, performance and security are critical requirements for analytics. But not all analytics services are built equal. And not all cloud storage is built for analytics.
Performance best practices for using Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Connection Pooling
This blog is a continuation of a series of blog posts to share best practices for improving performance and scale when using Azure Database for PostgreSQL service.
Lighting up healthcare data with FHIR®: Announcing the Azure API for FHIR
Today, we’re releasing the Azure API for FHIR which enables rapid exchange of data according to the HL7 FHIR specification and is backed by a fully managed Platform-as-a Service (PaaS) offering in the cloud.
Individually great, collectively unmatched: Announcing updates to 3 great Azure Data Services
As Julia White mentioned in her blog today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer. We also announced the preview of Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flow.
Azure DevOps Projects supporting Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions
With Azure DevOps Projects we want to make it is easy for you to set up a fully functional DevOps pipeline tailored to the development language and application platform you want to leverage.
Microsoft Healthcare Bot brings conversational AI to healthcare
Today we announced the general availability of the Microsoft Healthcare Bot in the Azure Marketplace. The Microsoft Healthcare Bot is a cloud service that powers conversational AI for healthcare.
Reserved instances now applicable to classic VMs, cloud services, and Dev/Test subscriptions
Today, we are excited to announce three new Azure Reserved VM Instances’ (RI) features to provide our customers with additional savings and purchase controls.
Account failover now in public preview for Azure Storage
Today we are excited to share the preview for account failover for customers with geo-redundant storage (GRS) enabled storage accounts.
Build your own deep learning models on Azure Data Science Virtual Machines
As a modern developer, you may be eager to build your own deep learning models, but aren’t quite sure where to start. If this is you, I recommend you take a look at the deep learning course from fast.ai. This new fast.
Processing trillions of events per day with Apache Kafka on Azure
n the current era, companies generate huge volumes of data every second. Whether it be for business intelligence, user analytics, or operational intelligence; ingestion, and analysis of streaming data requires moving this data from its sources to the multiple consumers that are interested in it.
New connectors added to Azure Data Factory empowering richer insights
Azure Data Factory adds new connectors for data ingestion into Azure to empower mordern data warehouse solutions and data-driven SaaS apps: Cosmos DB MongoDB API, Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, MongoDB, REST, and more.